Opening mutiple tabs with Firefox at startup!

LSainsbury · 01-02-2006, 14:04

Check this one out !!

Firefox - Tools, Options, General -

Seperate URLs with a pipe (|) and they will all load when you fire up Firefox!

EG:

http://www.google.com/ig | www.ebay.co.uk | www.cableforum.co.uk/board

...will all load in seperate tabs upon starting Firefox!

God I LOVE this browser!!!

**Chris** · 01-02-2006, 14:13

Very good - the only problem is, every time you hit your 'home' button, it opens all the sites you specified. Still, a neat trick

**Graham M** · 01-02-2006, 14:16

Hehe I asked how to do this a while back, and some helpful Soul told me how to do it.

You can also do it by opening all of the tabs you want to open when Firefox starts and go into settings and "Use Current Page" under the Home Page settings will have changed to "Use Current Pages"

LSainsbury · 01-02-2006, 14:33

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Originally Posted by Zeph

Hehe I asked how to do this a while back, and some helpful Soul told me how to do it.

You can also do it by opening all of the tabs you want to open when Firefox starts and go into settings and "Use Current Page" under the Home Page settings will have changed to "Use Current Pages"

So thats what that button does! :-)

BTW - Isn't it time to change Santa for the Easter Rabbit?

Paul · 01-02-2006, 14:35

Strange, I thought that was a well known item in FF

Oh well, you do the same in IE7 by the way, just open the tabs you want, select tools, Internet Options, General tab, Use current.
In IE7 though, you now have a little drop down list by the homepage Icon that you can use to select a single page from your homepage list if you don't want the lot opening. You can also use the dropdown list to edit your homepage list easily and quickly.

**Graham M** · 01-02-2006, 14:45

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Originally Posted by lsainsbury

So thats what that button does! :-)

BTW - Isn't it time to change Santa for the Easter Rabbit?

Just havent gotten round to it

Im sure I have the original PSDs somewhere.

**Chris** · 01-02-2006, 14:50

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Originally Posted by Paul

Strange, I thought that was a well known item in FF

Oh well, you do the same in IE7 by the way, just open the tabs you want, select tools, Internet Options, General tab, Use current.
In IE7 though, you now have a little drop down list by the homepage Icon that you can use to select a single page from your homepage list if you don't want the lot opening. You can also use the dropdown list to edit your homepage list easily and quickly.

IE 7 ... remind me, is that the last browser on earth to introduce tabbed browsing? Nice of them to finally get with the programme.

Paul · 01-02-2006, 14:51

Now, now, no IEvFF flaming please or I shall have to write a letter of complaint to the management of this board

LSainsbury · 01-02-2006, 17:57

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Originally Posted by Chris T

IE 7 ... remind me, is that the last browser on earth to introduce tabbed browsing? Nice of them to finally get with the programme.

Didn't IE have tabbed-browsing before in a very early version - I mean IE 2 or 3?

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris T

Very good - the only problem is, every time you hit your 'home' button, it opens all the sites you specified. Still, a neat trick

ogryn · 01-02-2006, 22:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris T

IE 7 ... remind me, is that the last browser on earth to introduce tabbed browsing? Nice of them to finally get with the programme.

Last time I checked Lynx didn't have it

skyblueheroes · 03-02-2006, 16:23

You could have done tabbed browsing with IE 6 using the MSN Toolbar !

Anyway, this has been posted before because I hadn't realised and it was very helpful !